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We’re getting a new report of rape or sexual assault about every other day now. Yesterday we had a first hand report of unreported rapes in the camp, today we have an arrest: Police arrested Tonye Iketubosin, a 26-year-old Crown Heights man, after two women report two separate assaults to the New York Police Department, the official said. One of the women, an 18-year-old Massachusetts native, told police that she [...]...

I got a tip about this from a witness about an hour ago. He saw officers arrive at McPherson Square and arrest one individual. He described a fight in which the man resisted arrest in a violent way. He then saw officers arrest a second man at the camp who also resisted arrest and fought with officers. Now the Washington Post has some more details including why the police were [...]...

From the Maine Sunday Telegram: Two teenage girls who ran away for four days were found, apparently safe and healthy, Saturday night in Portland. The girls apparently were found at the Occupy Maine encampment in Lincoln Park two days after the encampment was searched by police who had a tip that the girls were there. George Sproul, the father of one of the runaway girls, Dominique Lee Sproul, said his [...]...

From the Boston Globe: A man who told Transit police he is living in the Occupy Boston encampment was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly threatened to stab a man near the South Station bus terminal… “ ‘Hey, mommy, you free?’ ” Boucher allegedly said to the woman. He also asked the man if his girlfriend – who is also his fiancee — was working as a prostitute, police said. [...]...

At this time, it appears the gunman was not from the camp: Witnesses told the Houston Chronicle that the man entered the park shooting the weapon. But he did not appear to be targeting the Occupy Houston camp because he walked past it on his way to a pedestrian bridge. Occupy demonstrator Tim Jones told the newspaper that the witnesses did not think the rifle was real until the man [...]...

From the Press in New Zealand: Police are investigating the sexual assault of a teenager at the Occupy Christchurch site in Hagley Park. A 15-year-old girl said she was attacked at the camp on Thursday afternoon. She was understood to be visiting a friend who was staying at the camp. She was not physically injured but was left shaken by the incident. Protesters are of course claiming that the attacker was [...]...

This is one of the more revealing interviews I’ve seen. Note that this guy is not some transient but has been in the camp for weeks. Now the good news. Part of Occupy Portland’s camp has been removed: Police in Portland, Ore., cleared an encampment and arrested nine Occupy Portland protesters early Tuesday as Tennessee officials agreed to end curfew arrests. The (Portland) Oregonian reported, 40 to 50 police officers [...]...

Police are shutting the camp down as soon as tonight after an increase in serious crime at the camp including: On Tuesday police arrested a man for attempted rape after he entered a woman’s tent. She fought him off and hailed police who were in the park at the time. On Dec. 17, police logged an assault with a deadly weapon after a person was stabbed with a 12-inch hunting [...]...

Why so serious? This is video of right after the man in the Joker make-up was arrested. I’ve skipped to a section near the end of this clip where a woman who apparently knows him describes how this started. Then someone else covers the camera: He got pissed off because someone was calling him snitch and he f&*king got one of his knives…and brought it down and supposedly threatened a [...]...

Yesterday I wrote about Occupy Oakland organizers getting caught in a blatant lie (claiming a murder did not involve members of their camp). Now here’s another example of the same pattern.

Yesterday a man was stabbed near Occupy Orlando and driven to the hospital by some of the occupiers who witnessed the attack. The first and only report I’ve seen on the incident included the following denial of responsibility from Occupy Orlando:

Occupy Orlando protesters helped a person involved in an altercation that occurred at a site near Beth Johnson Park. The altercation involved individuals who are not part of the Occupy Orlando movement, however Occupy protesters who witnessed the incident stepped in to help the injured receive medical attention, alert authorities, and provide eyewitness statements.

Officers responded to the area of Senator Beth Johnson Park on South Ivanhoe Boulevard about 12:05 a.m. Sunday in response to a stabbing. Officers determined the argument between the two protesters was sparked by one of them playing a loud drum. When the argument escalated to a fistfight, the unnamed suspect pulled out a knife. That’s when the victim, identified by police as Taylor Dresia, 22, of Marietta, Ga., lunged toward the suspect and tried to grab the knife. Dresia suffered a series of cuts across the inside of his fingers on his left hand.

The spokespeople for these camps lie every time one of their members pulls a knife or rapes someone or burns down a building. But the media always runs the denial in the initial story even though there’s a clear pattern, one might say a considered strategy, of claiming any incident like this did not involve camp members.

The follow up article also notes that no one has been arrested because the victim was “extremely uncooperative.” So I guess occupy solidarity means you don’t rat out the guy who stabbed you, just like you don’t report camp rapes to the police.